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There's a difference between Björn (the name) and björn (the animal).

Capitalization gives additional context in this case, if it were in the beginning of the sentence though, then one would hope it contains other clues as well

I have `<firstname>.nu` as one of my domains, some company that resides on the same postal address as the owners of `<firstname>.se` reached out to buy the domain from me for I think it was €1000. I just told them no, I've had that name for 15 years, I've used it for my personal website ever since and have email and such set up.

I don't care if they printed out my domain on a car print or a card or something that they give out. That's not my problem.

The thing is, companies can (at least under some TLD's) claim domain names. But this claim has to be tested. And the test that I'm aware that exists is kinda if you have some kind of claim to it as well. It may that you own a business with that name, but it's also claim enough that you have that name as your name. Then your claim is valid and you had it first.

I'm not sure how it works with .com, but I wouldn't think they are very different.

In whois records I've seen something called registry lock, may be worth for you to look into that: https://internetstiftelsen.se/en/domains/tech-tools/registry...

Re:Is_email() on Thursday February 23, 2023 @03:42AM (#34908315)
It's allowed to have @ as part of the local part if it's quoted. So that wouldn't match my email `"foo@bar"@example.org`
I would assume that it follows the XDG spec and that you can specify XDG_CONFIG_HOME to place the file somewhere else.
This is the way.
Re:Atlas OS: We redesigned Windows for gaming on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @10:02AM (#33719944)
It also removes things related to security of the actual device and possibly network if something bad spreads.

It removes things such as: Windows Defender

It also removes "Restore Points & System Reset", so I guess that when it breaks you have to do a fresh install.

Source: https://github.com/Atlas-OS/Atlas/wiki/1.-FAQ#13-whats-remov...

Re:How many Linux commands can a 7 year old learn? on Monday May 09, 2022 @07:47AM (#31312976)
You mean emacs with evil-mode, right?
Re:Modern smartphone lenses are crazy on Saturday March 05, 2022 @03:28PM (#30571559)
Correction: It was released 2016, that's 6 years ago.

The point still stands though. But 6 instead of 8 years.

A properly implemented use of password_hash() would also allow them to use the same field and code for different algorithms over time.

What I mean is, the stored data contains which algorithms it is. So they can in their code or configuration change which algorithms to use and how many times it should hash. Then on login they can verify the password against the hash and also check if the stored hash needs to be rehashed against the current set settings, then it can create a new hash from the password the user entered on login and store that in the database.

Then you get automatic hash upgrades to match the current settings of the hashing of the passwords on the site with basically no user interaction (other than the act of logging in to have the password in plain text).

I would also argue that it's quite hard to determine from a Wikipedia article if a person were a good programmer at the time of creating a certain thing about 40 years ago.

If my memory serves me correctly, Leslie Lamport [1] created TeX because he wanted to write a book on math but there were no good systems to write math, so he made TeX. So to me, it sounds like he were a math teacher at that time, I have no idea if he actually knew programming when starting to work on TeX.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Lamport

LaTeX

I love the output it gives, but the language is quite horrible.

What does even the "search with bing" do from Notepad? Like... open "default browser with bing to let you search?" by a hotkey and menu entry? That's just... silly.
Re:Dynamic CSS color themes with similar contrasts on Monday October 11, 2021 @02:38AM (#28825445)
Oh, I guess that got there by mistake when I was migrating the page years ago. I've changed it in my template files. :)
Re:Dynamic CSS color themes with similar contrasts on Friday October 01, 2021 @12:00AM (#28714342)
Not sure why it links to the startpage when I linked to this page: https://elis.nu/blog/2021/09/dynamic-css-color-themes-with-s...
Soy doesn't contain estrogen, it contains phytoestrogen which looks very much like estrogen but actually has the opposite effect and block "real" estrogen. Phytoestrogen can help to lower estrogen levels.

Do you know where real estrogen comes from? Female animals. Do you know the gender of basically all meat/egg/milk products comes from? Females. So that's where your estrogen comes from.

Not from Soy.

Have you seen an image of a factory farm? They don't fix the soil. They ruin it more by having too many animals in a small space.

I'm fine with having smaller amounts of animals in open spaces that goes around and take care of the fields, but today's animal agriculture doesn't take care of that.

So you say that it's more extreme to eat beans than to raise animals by feeding them beans to then slaughter them to eat them?

I've read somewhere recently that you need 16kcal of feed to produce 1kcal worth of chicken. That's a 16 times loss in efficiency that requires a lot of plants to feed to the chicken that could have been consumed by humans.

Re:EXWM (Emacs X Window Manager) on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @04:46AM (#25196887)
I was using i3 before, so kinda went back to that and when that was set up I decided to try out sway again which actually did stick this time. So been on Sway for a couple of months :)
Re:EXWM (Emacs X Window Manager) on Friday November 20, 2020 @04:13AM (#25158713)
Emacs has this concept of frames. So you have workspaces by switching frame. Super-<number> is suggested binding for that.

But the weird thing here is that text buffers are shared between frames, but X11 buffers aren't. There's a function one can call to move an X11 buffer to another frame.

Re:EXWM (Emacs X Window Manager) on Friday November 20, 2020 @03:57AM (#25158614)
The Emacs instance running as the WM is just Emacs in fullscreen. You can use it as your editor. But you can also launch X11 programs and manage them as you do with text buffers. Kill a program, kill a buffer. Same thing.

But you can, of course, launch a graphical Emacs within EXWM. There you get a second Emacs thread.

One can also put X11 buffers in char-mode to pass through keybinds directly to that window. That way you don't have to do weird sequences to pass through emacs keybinds to another Emacs.

Re:EXWM (Emacs X Window Manager) on Friday November 20, 2020 @03:31AM (#25158443)
Correct. It does. I was on EXWM for one and a half year, with all it's pros and cons.

I gave a lightningtalk on EXWM at Congress last year: https://media.ccc.de/v/36c3-10525-lightning_talks_day_3#t=14...

Note: I'm not the developer, I'm not involved with the project, I was just a huge fan of it. And still is. But it's too slow and buggy for me these days.

Re:As an older guy I've finally figured out weight-loss on Monday November 02, 2020 @07:58AM (#24967651)
So... I made some notes a while back: https://elis.nu/drafts/health/

It's the story of how I've lost ~50kg in two years on my own, then I didn't stop there. No professional help or private training or things like that.

It's all about diet and hard training. No magic.

Re:A Vegan Sued Burger King over Its ‘Impossible Whopper’ on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @01:42AM (#21636096)
> Do you encounter this sort of thing outside of the internet? I've certainly seen online trolls mock vegans, etc but I haven't witnessed it IRL.

I'm a vegan. I've been invited to eat at steak houses in work related setting. And people know about these limits. And I'm not alone in that camp here.

A bit like the Raspberry Pi when it's not made of berries... ;)

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